1920s Best Way Soap + Towels Wash Up Kit For Travelers, Complete! green soapstone perhaps late 19th or very

perhaps late 19th or very early 20th c

I've found a few others somewhat like it dating to around the beginning of the 20th century

which seems as if weightless and floating

with a patent date of 1881 by the Hall Borchert Dress Form Co

1920s Best Way Soap + Towels Wash Up Kit For Travelers, Complete! green soapstone perhaps late 19th or veryVery smart, and very fun too, and perfectly embodying the explosion of car travel for pleasure in the 1920s; no surprise that one of these kits features in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum, which dates it to 1925. Great graphics on the front flap, and then inside 12 squares of paper soap (pure "cocoanut" oil, no less) and 12 paper towels, to be pulled out as needed. "Every motorist needs it!" So much that seems quintessentially American rolled